{"id":362143,"date":"2018-05-21T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-were-lied-to-by-a-clockwork-orange\/"},"modified":"2018-05-21T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T11:21:15","slug":"we-were-lied-to-by-a-clockwork-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-were-lied-to-by-a-clockwork-orange\/","title":{"rendered":"We Were Lied to by \u2018A Clockwork Orange\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thugs actually hate classical music.<\/p>\n

From the\u00a0L.A. Review of Books<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Bach at the Burger King<\/a>
By Theodore Gioia<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From Theodore Gioia\u2019s website: \u201cHailing from a line of writers, Theodore has the dubious distinction of being the second best-known writer named Ted Gioia in his family.\u201d The Gioias are like the Therouxs of the 21st Century.<\/p>\n

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MAY 17, 2018<\/p>\n

AT THE CORNER of 8th and Market in San Francisco, by a shuttered subway escalator outside a Burger King, an unusual soundtrack plays. A beige speaker, mounted atop a tall window, blasts Baroque harpsichord at deafening volumes. The music never stops. Night and day, Bach, Mozart, and Vivaldi rain down from Burger King rooftops onto empty streets.
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Empty streets, however, are the target audience for this concert. The playlist has been selected to repel sidewalk listeners \u2014 specifically, the mid-Market homeless who once congregated outside the restaurant doors that served as a neighborhood hub for the indigent. Outside the BART escalator, an encampment of grocery carts, sleeping bags, and plastic tarmacs had evolved into a sidewalk shantytown attracting throngs of squatters and street denizens. \u201cThere used to be a mob that would hang out there,\u201d remarked local resident David Allen, \u201cand now there may be just one or two people.\u201d When I passed the corner, the only sign of life I found was a trembling woman crouched on the pavement, head in hand, as classical harpsichord besieged her ears.<\/p>\n

\u2026 Experts trace the practice\u2019s origins back to a drowsy 7-Eleven in British Columbia in 1985, where some clever Canadian manager played Mozart outside the store to repel parking-lot loiterers. Mozart-in-the-Parking-Lot was so…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Thugs actually hate classical music. From the\u00a0L.A. Review of Books: Bach at the Burger KingBy Theodore Gioia From Theodore Gioia\u2019s website: \u201cHailing from a line of writers, Theodore has the dubious distinction of being the second best-known writer named Ted Gioia in his family.\u201d The Gioias are like the Therouxs of the 21st Century. MAY […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}